Homework #5

Geovanni Deras
Period 8
Homework #5


1. Identify
a)Scientific Revolution- This was a new way about thinking of the world scientifictly, this revolution made many people question accepted beliefs.

b) Nicolaus Copernicus- Was a polish astronomer. He was most interested in a old Greek idea that the sun stood at the center of the earth, he studied this for 25 years and reasoned that the everything revolved around the sun.

c)Heliocentric Theory- The theory is that the Sun is the center of the universe.

d)Johannes Kepler- Discovered that the plants don’t circle the sun in a cirle orbit but instead in a elliptical orbit.

e)Galileo Galilei- Born in 1564 Galileo made one of his best discoverys when he was only 17 and discovered the law of the pendulum.

f)Scientific Method- is a logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.

g)Francis Bacon- Was an English politician and writer that helped to advance the “Scientific Method”

h)René Descartes- Developed analytical geometry, which linked two thing algebra and geometry.

i)Isaac Newton- An English scientist helped bring a breakthrough to the theory of motion.

2.Causes of the Scientific Revolution
a)Many scientific institutions developed.
b)People started to question the church.
c)Experimental devlopment.
d)Many of Aristotle’s theories were questioned.
e)Scientist began to find new wyas of explaining theories through math.